RESEARCH CLUSTERS
Comparative Civil Law (CCivL) Cluster
The CCivL Cluster focuses on legal families and traditions in the civil law world and those areas of the law in which the shared roots are particularly visible. The defining characteristics are most pronounced in private law, and here in particular in the law of obligations and property. The Cluster's work, therefore, focuses on but is not necessarily limited to these areas of the law. It strives for a balanced analysis of jurisdictions in Asia that are strongly influenced by either the German or French legal tradition and those whose heritage is not as clearly attributable to European origins. The CCivL Cluster also supports work that compares and contrasts approaches in civil law traditions or jurisdictions with their common-law counterparts.
Cluster Coordinators
Comparative Commercial Law (CCL) Cluster
The CCL Cluster promotes high-impact research in areas of commercial law such as contract law, corporate law and governance, and private law more generally, all from a comparative perspective with a focus on Asia. The CCL Cluster seeks to foster collaborative research with various faculties within NUS and other national and international universities and research institutions. The CCL Cluster provides a platform for faculty and external members with intersecting interests to exchange ideas and develop research initiatives. The CCL Cluster is particularly interested in research that compares various aspects of commercial laws in Asian jurisdictions with those of legal jurisdictions elsewhere, and also intra-Asian comparisons.
Cluster Coordinators
Comparative Public Law (CPL) Cluster
The CPL Cluster leverages on the strength of the comparative constitutional law faculty at NUS to bring together scholars and scholarship with a focus on comparative constitutional law in the Asian context, delving deep into areas such as constitutional authority, constitutional foundings and resilience, and constitutional pluralism.
The CPL Cluster has also organised symposia, workshops, and conferences under the auspices of the cluster such as 'Law, Authoritarianism and Democracy in Asia' (2016); 'Constitutional Debate in Vietnam' (2016); 'Indigenising Administrative Law in Common Law Systems' (2017); 'Constitutional Foundings in Southeast Asia' (2017); 'Constitutional Pluralism in Southeast Asia' (2017); 'Constitutionalism in Asian Contexts' (2018); and 'Constitutionalism Resilience in South Asia' (2019).
Cluster Coordinators
International Law in Asia (ILA) Cluster
The International Law in Asia Cluster aims to generate cutting-edge international law research and knowledge by facilitating exchange and collaboration among NUS researchers and the larger international law community. It aims to be an inclusive forum for the discussion of international law issues, particularly in the Asian context, among international law researchers, practitioners, and policymakers. The cluster’s activities will draw on the NUS Law Faculty’s expertise across public and private international law in pursuing the study of significant and timely issues within these areas of international law as well as between them. It intends to function as a hub that brings together and showcases the NUS Law Faculty’s international law research and collaboration with other international law actors.
Cluster Co-ordinator
Law and Religion (L&R) in Asia Cluster
The L&R Cluster aims to lead ground-breaking research on the interaction between law and religion both in Asia and globally. In light of the growing significance of religion in various aspects of public life, the L&R Cluster strives to promote comparative understandings on the challenges and opportunities that religion presents, particularly in law, politics, and governance. Our work spans issues such as religious law, state-religion relations, and the regulation of religion and religious freedom. In all this, we are driven by contextual and inter-disciplinary approaches to understanding the dynamics between law and religion. With a primary focus on developments in Asia, our activities are geared towards facilitating the exchange of ideas, generating new research initiatives and strengthening ongoing ones, as well as producing policy-relevant and practically-grounded outputs.
Cluster Coordinators
